The Game 2009

This year's Harvard-Yale Game was here in New Haven. The location of the Game switches off each year between here and Cambridge. The busses from Harvard arrived the night before the Game, and the next day, everyone made their way over to the Yale Bowl.



The tailgate parties were quite great. There was a lot of food. And of course, the giant inflatable Handsome Dan:



We all filed into Yale Bowl after getting our fill of food from the tailgate. Last year's game, we lost 10-0 to Harvard, which was especially miserable with the addition of the freezing weather. But surprisingly, we started off surprisingly well this time. We somehow managed to get a 10-0 lead before the half of the first quarter, which we managed to hold for a while.



The half-time show was quite interesting. Both the Harvard and Yale marching bands gave a performance, each based off of some story. I couldn't make out what Harvard's was about. First they had some guy with a red cape chase around a guy in a blue cape. Next, they brought out this weird dragon thing:



Ours was based off the movie 300 and reenacted some of the battles from the movie while poking fun at the running joke that Harvardians have huge egos. We didn't have our own version of "THIS IS SPARTA!!", but we did have a giant effigy of John Harvard, which first failed being used as a battering ram, and was then beheaded.



Well, we were doing well for most of the game. We held our 10-0 lead (and hopes) all the way until somewhere in the middle of the 4th quarter.



There were about 10 minutes left in the 4th quarter, and we were thinking, what could possibly go wrong? With a couple of bad plays, Harvard managed to slip in two touchdowns, and we ended up losing 14-10. It was quite sad, but at the same time it was so anticlimactic that it was funny.

Well anyway, we definitely did better than last time. I'll have my hopes up for next year.

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